Discussion

[lavish mason]

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[honest sky]

OpenAI hater (Elon Musk) gonna hate

[spare sierra]

I find it interesting that Apple is going to Google, their competition, for AI services.

Though I think this is what Siri and Alexa should’ve been, they were just too early for their time

[lavish mason]

well alexa was basically made to listen in on convos and recommend amazon products

[spare sierra]

Perhaps, though they still advertised it to be functionally similar to Siri.

[alpine musk]

apple and Google work together when it's beneficial for each other, for instance Google paying Apples safari to default to Google for a search engine. There might be more under the covers that makes it attractive for both parties to consider

[spare sierra]

On the lawsuit note, I think this is mostly overblown (especially since Grok supposedly has hit #1 on the App Store before), but I can understand why Musk would be annoyed that the company he left is getting all the limelight. Furthermore, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Grok in Apple’s recommended apps outside the top 5.

In any case, it’s good to be informed on the future of technology.

[spare sierra]

True

Though at this point in time, there’s not a real competitor to Google Search besides maybe Bing, or if you’re a tech nerd, DuckDuckGo

[honest sky]

DDG is Bing-based

with privacy flavour

[spare sierra]

Interesting

[marble field]

I wonder how is Gemini gonna function with iPhone in China, since in China you can’t use Google🤔

[alpine musk]

that's why Google got pinned as monopoly

[spare sierra]

How does Siri function in China?

[honest sky]

perhaps they could consider deepseek

[marble field]

I think Siri by itself currently is working in China? Idk

[spare sierra]

I mean, true they do have a lot of power and popularity, though I think almost all their services have a worthy competitor, outside of YouTube.

And that’s mostly because video streaming services are ruinously expensive

[alpine musk]

realistically not so much, in the realm of search engines that is, Google has a death grip on the market share. 62% as of late with safari behind them at 12% and so on. I'm not sure if the outcome is still ongoing but they are most likely going to have to drop the Google search engine and sell it to someone else per u.s requests

[split wave]

Indeed. While its a good move for both companies on paper I guess I never expected this to happen